From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 6 1:46:11 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 01:46:08 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C3DB37B400; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 01:46:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AA724573E3; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 03:46:25 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 03:46:25 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Tatsumi Hosokawa Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current Message-ID: <20001206034625.A40075@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" References: <86g0k2q7gz.wl@ringo.FromTo.Cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <86g0k2q7gz.wl@ringo.FromTo.Cc>; from hosokawa@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:28:28PM +0900 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: keichii@peorth.iteration.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:28:28PM +0900, Tatsumi Hosokawa scribbled: | I've ported Multilingual sysinstall to -current. I put the latest | source and binaries (Japanese/Englush only) is at | http://people.freebsd.org/~hosokawa/boot-ja/5.0-CURRENT/release-20001206-1/ | (please note that non-English docuemnt files are based on 4.2-RELEASE) | | Currently, this implementation supports Japanese, Korean, Traditional | Chinese, and Russian. The status of translation work is: | | Japanese: finished | Korean: finished | Traditional Chinese: about to finish | Russian: only *.hlp files have been translated | | This code has some minor problems, but it works. I think it's better | to change the development of this project to open style. I would like | to import this code to -current CVS repositry soon if there's no | objections. As we wait for libh development, I do not think we should exert efforts to try for another solution. This tends to allow for slack in further development of better products. A good example would be a proposal by Alfred Pernstein to slightly modify RELENG_4 SMP for the duration of SMPNG development. The proposal was not well accepted due to the reason I stated above. We really should concentrate on libh as a complete and _clean_ solution. In addition, the purpose of putting localized sysinstall in -CURRENT is rather dubious. -CURRENT/HEAD is a developers' branch, people who use this branch should be able to read English and the system error messages. If they cannot install the system with English sysinstall, I would have doubts on their programming and testing ability. People who run -CURRENT should be able to read and write English to understand the code comments, report bugs, and post to the lists in English. I would have no objections to L10N'ized sysinstall being maintained in the same way that PAO is maintained. The boot floppies and iso images can be put up somewhere for download, and maintained in RELENG_4. Normally, I would welcome any I18N/L10N efforts in FreeBSD. However, the FreeBSD Project's official position paraphrased is "If you don't know what to do with -CURRENT, don't install it." Combined with the point that we should not divert efforts from libh, I hold the opinion that we should not import this. Finally, still many thanks and applause to Tatsumi and others for this work. | FYI: for 4.2-RELEASE, | http://people.freebsd.org/~hosokawa/boot-ja/4.2-RELEASE/release-20001205-1/ | contains source, and binaries for all supported languages. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message